[yocto] use different versions of autoconf and automake in parallel for different packages

[Michael Fainstein]

I have a lot of source packages from CentOS-5. They all use autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6.
Autotools in Yocto are much newer: autoconf 2.63 and automake 1.11.1.
CentOS-5 packages fail to auto-configure with newer autotools.

Can I install and use in parallel several versions of autoconf and automake native tools? I found a guide for doing it at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/autotools-multiversion.txt and implemented it. However, install of one version replaces (completely removes) other version, so I can use only one version for my build, and that's not what I want: all Yocto native tools should use newer autotools version and my packages should use older autotools version.


Any suggestions for implementing this?

Thanks,
Michael



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